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Sam's Club announced Wednesday that it is opening a private health insurance exchange, catering to the small-business owners that make up its core customers. The exchange is the latest effort by a major retailer to offer a service to push beyond the industry's traditional business of selling goods. Sam's Club, a division of Wal-Mart Stores, says its private insurance marketplace is part of a broader attempt to build customer loyalty in an era when other membership programs, such as Amazon Prime, threaten to take a bite out of its business. Sam's hopes its offering will be a popular alternative to the public insurance marketplaces that were created as part of the...

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Sam's Club announced Wednesday that it is opening a private health insurance exchange, catering to the small-business owners that make up its core customers.
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